Editing Ivor Bueb (section)

==Career==
Born in [[County Borough of East Ham|East Ham]], [[Essex]] east of London, Bueb started racing seriously in a [[Formula Three]] 500cc [[Cooper Car Company|Cooper]] in 1953, graduating to the Cooper works team in 1955 when he finished second in the [[British Formula 3 International Series|British championship]]. He made occasional starts in Grands Prix in 1957 with a [[Connaught Engineering|Connaught]] and a [[Maserati in motorsport|Maserati]] run by [[Gilby Engineering]]. The following year he raced [[Bernie Ecclestone]]'s Connaught at Monaco, and drove a [[Formula Two]] [[Team Lotus|Lotus]] at the [[1958 German Grand Prix|German Grand Prix]].

In 1959 he had two outings for [[British Racing Partnership|BRP]], firstly a non-qualification at [[1959 Monaco Grand Prix|Monaco]], then another Formula Two entry at the [[1959 British Grand Prix|British Grand Prix]]. He participated in six Formula One World Championship Grands Prix in all, but scored no championship points. He also participated in numerous non-Championship Formula One races. With the death of [[Archie Scott Brown]] at [[Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps|Spa]] in May 1958, [[Brian Lister]] hired Bueb to fill the now-vacant [[Lister Cars|Lister]]-[[Jaguar Cars|Jaguar]] driver's seat. Bueb did an admirable job, scoring several first places at tracks such as [[Crystal Palace circuit|Crystal Palace]] and [[Goodwood Circuit|Goodwood]] during the 1958 and 1959 sports car campaigns.
[[File:Den Haag Louwman Museum 111.jpg|thumb|right|Ivor Bueb's winning car from the [[1957 24 Hours of Le Mans]]]]
Bueb is perhaps best known for sharing the winning works [[Jaguar D-type]] with [[Mike Hawthorn]] in the [[1955 24 Hours of Le Mans]] which was marred by an accident in which 82 spectators were killed; a success he repeated with [[Ron Flockhart (racing driver)|Ron Flockhart]] in the ex-works [[Ecurie Ecosse]] car in [[1957 24 Hours of Le Mans|1957]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bn5AAAAAIBAJ&pg=2016%2C6974050 |title=Scots win at Le Mans. Jaguars in First Four Places |work=[[The Glasgow Herald]] |date=24 June 1957 |page=7 |access-date=11 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.racingsportscars.com/results/Le_Mans-1955-06-12.html |title=1955 24 Hours of Le Mans results |publisher=racingsportscars.com |access-date=9 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.experiencelemans.com/contents/en-us/d176_1957_Le_Mans_24_Hours_Competitors_and_Results.html |title=1957 24 Hours of Le Mans results |publisher=racingsportscars.com |access-date=9 April 2017}}</ref>

He suffered serious injuries in 1959 when he crashed his BRP [[Cooper Car Company|Cooper]]-[[Borgward]] Formula Two car at the [[Charade Circuit]] near [[Clermont-Ferrand]], France.<ref name="Ivor Bueb at Motorsport Memorial"/> He crashed at Gravenoire, a multiple apex-section at the very far end of the circuit, and was thrown out of his Cooper.<ref name="Ivor Bueb at Motorsport Memorial"/> After being carried off the circuit by Gendarmes in a way that probably worsened his injuries, Bueb died six days later at a hospital near the circuit.<ref name="Ivor Bueb at Motorsport Memorial"/>

It was Ivor Bueb's death, in conjunction with [[Archie Scott Brown]]'s demise, that finally led Brian Lister to shut down his very successful sports car racing effort.